Why is thankfulness important? Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me…The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to the one who orders his way rightly I [...]
My junior year of college I spent 10 months looking for a good internship. One month after I should have landed one in order to graduate, I still had nothing. I had the grades, I’d worked for the experience, I had a strong resume. I remember walking one morning in tears telling the Lord that [...]
We praise what we love, and what we esteem to have value, what we enjoy. Whether a good meal, a college team, a lover, a hero, a child-it is natural to sing the praises of that which we value. CS Lewis writes: I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not [...]
Several nights ago I dreamed I was in Panera Bread trying to order dinner. Three times I wasn’t listened to and ended up with a PBJ (which I hate) on plain white Bunny Bread. I woke up frustrated and hungry. I do not share this in order to make a deep spiritual allegory, only to [...]
We were not made for death. Whether you believe the Bible or not, this fact is apparent–there is no one who naturally desires to die, and given a threatening situation we naturally demonstrate a fight or flight response–both being means to preserve life. And looking at God’s original design for creation, death was not a [...]
